When the first AV8 rolls off the production line in June, it will have cost Arcam just over one million dollars in parts, tooling, licensing fees, and research & development. Built by a talented team of 23 Arcam analog, digital, software, and broadcast video engineers, the AV8 represents Arcam’s view of the ultimate home entertainment processor.

ALI (Columbia/TriStar Home Entertainment) is director Michael Mann’s 2001 biographical drama about the famed prize fighter. Will Smith won an Oscar nomination for his performance. Aspect ratio is 2.40:1; sound formats are English Dolby Digital 5.1 and French Dolby Digital 5.1, with English, Spanish and French subtitles and English closed-captioning. Extras include the theatrical trailer. MPAA rating is R.

They say it is too early to throw away your socks and don a pale blue Versace linen suit but what the hell do "they" know? Daily Variety reported last Thursday that Michael Mann has agreed to bring back the trend setting crime story, Miami Vice for the silver screen. Reports say that Philip Michael Thomas and Don Johnson will not be getting the call however you never know who will appear in a cameo.

Canada’s favorite progressive rock trio Rush have just announced the full schedule of dates for their 2002 North American tour to support their first new studio album in over 5 years.
Titled "Vapor Trails" Rush’s seventeenth studio album was produced by Rush along with engineer Paul Northfield (Marilyn Manson, Hole) and will be in stores on Tuesday May 14. All of the Canadian trio’s 22 albums have been certified RIAA gold-or-better, with worldwide sales of over 35 million.

Dubbed Mirage OMNISAT, this new product from Audio Products International Corp. (API) is a major breakthrough in speaker design that will bring Mirage Omnipolar loudspeaker technology to a whole new audience.
Under the direction of API’s Vice President for new product development, Ian Paisley, Mirage pioneered the commercially successful application of bipolar loudspeaker design in the early 1980’s, moving on to develop Omnipolar designs that Paisley calls the logical progression from the bipolar concept.